Inspired by my friend Dave, who preceded me as music director at our college radio station in the 1980s and who just published a list of his top 300 songs of the decade (!), I assembled a more modest top 40.
These are songs, not artists (indeed, there are a few artists here for whom I only own one song), but I did decide not to repeat any artists.
My original thought was to do this as an old-fashioned mix tape (except on cd) – but with 20 recipients at 3 cds each that was going to be a lot of postage and plastic (I couldn’t get it down to two cds – somewhere along the way I started liking a lot of 6 minute songs) . So then I thought podcast, but after a few hours I felt like I had less understanding of the concept than when I started. So here are two formats I was able to figure out: a single big audio file you can download or stream.
Songs 40 to 21:
download (about 75 MB)
stream
Check back in a few days for 20 to 1.
Jack Silbert, curator